Monthly Archives: May 2012

CogNet Preview

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As you may have heard, CogNet is enter­ing an excit­ing new phase of devel­op­ment. As we near the offi­cial relaunch of CogNet, which will take place in the com­ing weeks, we’d like to take this oppor­tu­nity to invite all cur­rent sub­scribers to take part in our cus­tomer pre­view at http://cognetbeta-mitp-cog.mit.edu  We also invite you to direct oth­ers to the site by extend­ing this invi­ta­tion to fel­low librar­i­ans, stu­dents, and schol­ars within the cog­ni­tive sci­ence community.

In order to have full access to the pre­view site, users will need to sign up for a 30-day account by click­ing on the free trial link on the right-hand side of the home­page.   These trial accounts will last for 30 days, after which all activ­ity dur­ing that period will be deleted when the site is reset prior to launch. Since you will be access­ing only the test­ing site, you will in no way inter­fere with your cur­rent live CogNet subscription.

Feed­back is an essen­tial com­po­nent of the suc­cess of CogNet. We hope you will use the Get­Sat­is­fac­tion feed­back tool found on the left-hand side of each page within the pre­view site.

CogNet has been opti­mized for Chrome and Fire­fox web browsers.  As you nav­i­gate the cus­tomer pre­view site, please make note of sev­eral new fea­tures. These include print­ing and shar­ing capa­bil­i­ties, rich XML-content, cita­tions, browse-by-tags, faceted search capa­bil­i­ties, and link­ing out to Google Scholar to see how con­tent is sit­u­ated in wider scholarship.

One of the most sig­nif­i­cant changes has been the con­ver­sion from PDF to XML which will allow, for the first time, actively tagged con­tent at the chap­ter level — no small under­tak­ing as you can imag­ine! To that end, not all fea­tures have been acti­vated for cus­tomer pre­view and not all con­tent has been loaded or tagged, but rest assured we are work­ing fastidiously.

Addi­tion­ally, please be sure to note the following:

While adver­tis­ing does pop up in the print fea­ture now, there will be no adver­tis­ing in CogNet when it is launched.

Key­word search is cur­rently search­ing across *all* CogNet con­tent, and so very gen­eral searches (e.g. brain) will take time to return results.  In the future, key­word search will be faster.  Also, please keep in mind that advanced search offers more options to con­strain results.

Finally, we are aware of sev­eral bugs in Dru­pal that affect some shar­ing and other fea­tures, and those are being actively resolved.

CogNet was built at the MIT Press with the assis­tance of librar­i­ans and cog­ni­tive sci­ence researchers.  Your ideas are extremely valu­able to us and we appre­ci­ate the time it takes to gen­er­ate thought­ful feedback.

Thank you very much in advance for all of your thoughts, com­ments, and ideas.
The MIT Press

JSTOR Institution Finder

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JSTOR has a new ser­vice for those con­nect­ing from off-campus. If you go to JSTOR or fol­low a link to a JSTOR arti­cle from off-campus with­out first log­ging into our Off-Campus Proxy, you can now login to JSTOR with your UW NetID using their Insti­tu­tion Finder feature.

From any JSTOR page find the login link in the upper right cor­ner of the page.

Next click on the login link next to Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton in the Insti­tu­tion Finder list

You will be asked for your UW NetID and pass­word then returned to the loca­tion or arti­cle in JSTOR and you will now have full access to all our pur­chased arti­cles and journals.

If you have any ques­tions about this ser­vice you can con­tact us using the Ask Us service.

TRIAL: NBCLearn

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Trial avail­able May 14 — June 30, 2012

http://highered.nbclearn.com

Video tuto­r­ial avail­able from the Home­page “video carousel”.

Users who want to access per­son­al­iza­tion fea­tures should cre­ate an indi­vid­ual account by click­ing “Reg­is­ter Now” in the upper right hand corner.

Weekly train­ing ses­sions are avail­able.  Sign up at http://webex.nbclearn.com

Addi­tional tools and resources http://www.nbclearn.com/tools/

NBC News is mak­ing thou­sands of videos, his­toric news­reels, pri­mary source doc­u­ments, pho­tographs and more avail­able to instruc­tors, researchers and stu­dents.  Videos are accom­pa­nied by transcripts.

  • Thou­sands of His­toric Film and Video Clips
  • Pri­mary Source Documents
  • Per­sonal Playlists
  • Down­load Videos (down­load­ing NOT avail­able dur­ing trial)
  • Dozens of Collections
  • Pre­mium Part­ner Content

 

Send com­ments to Suzan Parker or Jes­sica Albano

New resource: Archives Unbound

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Archives Unbound from Gale is now acces­si­ble.  It was funded by a recent large Allen grant.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/wash_main?db=GDSC

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused dig­i­tal col­lec­tions of his­tor­i­cal doc­u­ments that sup­port the research and study needs of schol­ars and stu­dents at the col­lege and uni­ver­sity level. Col­lec­tions in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of top­ics from the Mid­dle Ages forward-from Witch­craft to World War II to twentieth-century polit­i­cal history.

Archives Unbound offers many mod­ules.  We have acquired 5, of which 4 are now available:

Final account­abil­ity ros­ters of Japanese-American relo­ca­tion cen­ters, 1944–1946
Japanese-American relo­ca­tion camp news­pa­pers : per­spec­tives on day-to-day life.
Per­sonal jus­tice denied : pub­lic hear­ings of the Com­mis­sion on Wartime Relo­ca­tion and Intern­ment, 1981
Polic­ing the Shang­hai Inter­na­tional Set­tle­ment, 1894–1945

The 5th, which should be avail­able in June 2012, is:
Greens­boro Mas­sacre, 1979: con­fronta­tion between the Ku Klux Klan and the Com­mu­nist Worker’s Party

 

New Resource: History Vault

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His­tory vault is now acces­si­ble.  It has been funded via a large Allen grant
http://web.lexisnexis.com/histvault

His­tory vault includes pri­mary source mate­r­ial from fed­eral agen­cies, let­ters, papers, pho­tographs, scrap­books, finan­cial records, and diaries are among the unique resources avail­able in dig­i­tal for­mat for the first time. Mod­ule one con­sists of 37 col­lec­tions of orga­ni­za­tional records and per­sonal papers, and the sec­ond mod­ule is com­prised of 36 col­lec­tions from fed­eral gov­ern­ment agencies.

We have acquired the first two mod­ules on Black free­dom strug­gles.  Addi­tional mod­ules will be made avail­able for purchase.